Exhibitions Archives

Exhibitions

Freedom from Inspiration

by Kevin Baker,

The fight over which of our public monuments should remain where they are is as complicated as the American past they commemorate. For all the fighting over who and what…

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

Before she showed Pop paintings at the Whitney and the Guggenheim; before her madcap plays were performed at the Judson Poets’ Theater and La MaMa; before she traveled the female…

Fifty Years Under a Cloud

by Tom Engelhardt,

The uneasy search for our atomic history

High Concept

by Hans Ulrich Obrist,

From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

Civil Rights Act

by Amy M. Tyson,

From an interview with Azie Mira Dungey, creator of the Web comedy series Ask a Slave, by Amy M. Tyson, a historian at DePaul University, published in February in The…

Showing a Little Leg

by Dan Keane,

A pilgrimage to Ellen Altfest’s body paintings

Street Meat

From the press release of a performance held in July at Allegra LaViola Gallery, in New York City. Artist Laura Ginn and Allegra LaViola Gallery proudly present Tomorrow We Will…

Tut to the chase

by Anna Della Subin,

All the publicist’s men

by Harper’s Staff,

The enveloping air

by John Berger,

Light and moment in Monet

Objection d’art

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,